Jesse Milan | assignment for Sojourner's Magazine

A portrait assignment I was commissioned to do by Sojourners magazine of Jesse Milan, the president of AIDS United, was just published in their April issue.

Mr. Milan is a tirelessly effective national-level advocate for the rights and well-being of people living with HIV. He also exudes a warm and exuberant personality.

Many thanks to Ed Spivey, art director of Sojourners, for this interesting assignment.

Quarantine Diary 3

Another quiet day keeping (mostly) to ourselves. Misty, calm and greening.
Ruth and I went grocery shopping early. Some things were available, others in short supply or absent. Most people behaved appropriately; we avoided those who were less cautious of their own and others health.

We took a long walk in a park area that we had not previously strolled in.

Birds, and the earth slowly coming alive again.

And the virus... still out there.

Azaleas in Ruth's yard

Cherry blossom 'snow'

Paper goods aisle in the supermarket

Can of Plagues - Passover shopping 

Supermarket employee disinfecting shopping carts.

the road back home

Empty roads, on our way to the park.

Skunk cabbage

Morning headlines.

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention- rally and conference

I recently covered the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention's annual conference and rally at the US Capitol.

These are very kind, caring, and effective people.

They met and or were spoken to by a number of officials and experts, including Senators Senators Todd Young R-IN, Shelley Moore-Capito R-WV, Sheldon Whitehouse D-RI, Chris Coons D-DE, Catherine Cortez Matto D-NV, Jack Reed D-RI , Congressman Paul Tonko D-NY, former Congressman Patrick Kennedy, Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie, Sam Brinton of the Trevor Project, and media executive Tony Cornelius.

Thanks to John Madigan, Chelsey Dumond, and the rest of the professional staff at AFSP for the honor of being of service in this effort.

From the vaults: Safer Sex | Public service ads for Whitman Walker Clinic

In the 1980's and early 1990's I did the photography for a series of AIDs/HIV awareness and safer sex advertisements for campaigns for the Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington DC..

The talented art director for all the work was the late Larry Roser of the Naab/Roser Agency. The copywriter was Elizabeth Naab of the same agency.

I am proud to have been part of this work. It was quite difficult to craft the right material for the times- there was significant resistance in the mainstream press to running some of these pieces. One of these pieces was the first ad promoting AIDs awareness in the DC area.

Some of the work has gotten lost over time. These are the ones I found in my archive.